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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Companies made big climate pledges. Now they are balking on delivering. (wapo.st)
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As the world warms at an alarming pace, a spate of backsliding on corporate climate commitments heightens the peril

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

People need to stop listening to these companies and just drag them into the street.

[–] Dizzirron@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Okay who's pretending to not know what is so well universally known? Corps are focused on whatever it takes to max quarterly short term profits.

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 5 points 11 months ago

: O